It was Dec. 2, 1961. North Carolina’s Tar Heels had just won their home opener, defeating Virginia 80-46.

The Tar Heels’ new head coach, Dean Smith, met with his team in the locker room, then came out, looked around at a handful of us who had come looking for a quote or two for our stories and asked Bob Quincy, the sports information director, “What do I do now?”

On Thursday, North Carolina football players were over-exuberant in a celebratory spray-painting of the Victory Bell, causing damage to the visiting locker room at Duke's Wallace Wade Stadium. UNC agreed to pay for the damages. No players will face discipline for the incident, coach Larry Fedora said Monday.